Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 2 | The price has doubled since Iraq invaded Kuwait and now it 's going up fast though with traders convinced that a war in the Gulf is inevitable . |
| 3 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 4 | For this reason , and because of the limited use for such general data-types , the only data-types smaller than a word which are at all commonly provided for in the instruction set are half-words , characters , and decimal digits . |
| 5 | You know they sleep with both eyes open and a rifle under the pillow-not to mention the fact that it 's still lambing season and most of them will be up all night ! |
| 6 | The emaciated guitarist balances precariously on legs thinner than a pair of whittled Swan Vestas , which is fine , because a painfully thin member is essential if the glam card is going to be successfully played . |
| 7 | In her mind , she saw her mother , not dead but full of life with her eyes bright and a smile on her lips . |
| 8 | By comparison , a sheepdog has been recorded barking for seven hours non-stop and a cocker spaniel is capable of cramming over 900 yelps into a ten-minute period . |
| 9 | But today , fortified by her experiences , feeling six feet high and a tower of strength , Miss Fogerty led the entire school into morning assembly and faced a host of questioning eyes with unaccustomed composure and authority . |
| 10 | He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes . |
| 11 | Dexter shook his long limbs loose and a frown of puzzlement bunched his forehead . |
| 12 | As then Chairman of Bell Line Steamers Ltd and a Director of the Bank of Scotland , he brought to the Board his wide experience of the business and commercial world . |
| 13 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 15 | It is blueish in colour , six times larger than a chicken 's egg , and about to make ornithological history . |
| 16 | Eight times larger than a lion , the griffin has an acute sense of hearing , and its talons are highly prized for their ability to change colour when they come into contact with poison . |
| 17 | The tropical rainforest tree pictured on the front of the leaflet was at least 400 years old when a chainsaw cut it down . |
| 18 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 19 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 20 | Marc Jeffery , from Stround , was 20 years old and a student of philosophy . |
| 21 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 22 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 23 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 24 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 25 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |
| 26 | The others were given to an arts group , a sports individual and a sports group . |
| 27 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 28 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 29 | Most blinds other than a roller blind will screen out too much light . |
| 30 | unc Volumes greater than a litre are usually left in tens , hundreds or thousands of litres so only this table is needed for most practical purposes . |